Integrae Graecae grammatices institutiones / à Philippo Melanchthone conscriptae at[que] pluribus in locis auctae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560.

Contributor:

Setzer, Johann, approximately 1478-1532.

Anshelm, Thomas, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

German Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Greek language--Grammar.

Greek language.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Dentener(?), Joachimus (former owner) (inscription)

Bea(?), Martin (autograph)

Physical Description:

216 unnumbered pages : music ; 19 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

æ,*. **nt nusæ Hæas (C) 1520 (R)

Place of Publication:

Haganoae : In aedibus Thomae Anshelmi Badensis, Anno MDXX ... [1520]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf M4r, which reads: Haganoae, In aedibus Thomae Anshelmi Badensis. Anno. M.D.XX. Mense Augusto.

Signatures: A-N⁸ M⁴.

Without pagination.

Title within multi-part ornamental woodcut border; woodcut initials and printer's device.

Johannes Secerius (or Setzer) probably served as corrector of the press for this edition. A verse attributed to him ("Iohannes Secerius Lauchensis") appears beneath the title.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf M4 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Euripides. Euripidou tragōdiae duo, Hekabē kai Iphigeneia en Aulidi. Apud inclytam Basileam : Apud Ioannem Frobenium, An. MDXXIIII [1524].

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1949.

Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary full blind-tooled leather over angled-edge wooden boards; 3 raised bands on spine; 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates; portion of early vellum ms. leaf (ruled in ink; text in ink with red rubrics; visible text: Ps. 67(68):33-34) used as binder's waste.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. ownership inscription ("Ioachimus Dentener[?] me ma[n]cipit") at head of front pastedown; dated ms. autograph ("Martin Bea[?] Eccles. Rosfeld. Pastor ad 1626") at foot of title leaf; remains of bookplate(?) on back pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy has early ms. inscriptions (adages, some perhaps from Erasmus) in Latin and Greek in dark and reddish ink on front pastedown, first blank leaf at beginning of volume, and back pastedown; early ms. notes headed "In Melanchtonis Grammaticam dictata" concerning grammar and prosody on second blank leaf at beginning of volume. "[V]olume was probably used in connection with university lecture."--R. Hirsch, Catalogue of manuscripts in the libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Lat. 253.

Penn Libraries copy: "Considerable manuscript annotations in large parts of Melanchthon ... possibly by the earlier of two known owners whose name appears inside front cover (Joachim Dentener[?] me mancipit)."--R. Hirsch, Catalogue of manuscripts in the libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Lat. 253.

Penn Libraries copy: left board damaged; spine damaged; binding lightly wormed; wormholes in tail margin of blank leaves at beginning of volume and leaves A1-M3; wormhole in fore-edge margin of blank leaves at beginning of volume and leaves A1-B2.

Cited in:

VD 16 M 3492

Hagënau, Alsace. Bib. munic. Catalogue, no. 278

OCLC:

228717683